JAGUAR E-TYPE ('The Car's the Star') 1 of 2

[@DavidWDirector]

Beautiful words from Quentin Willson. I had a bundle of fun directing this film, with some lovely folk who owned the cars and kindly loaned them for filming.

[@rayperkins6006]

I have an E-Type and I derive great pleasure from just looking at it in my garage. There is no other car like it.

[@michaelmeliambro5117]

Bet you wish you had the original Corvette Stingray; too bad for you.

[@liverpoolscottish6430]

@@michaelmeliambro5117 The original Stingray is a stunning car, but it's not in the same class as the E, only an American could think that it was! It's NEVER been mentioned in any comparison with the E that I've ever read. Too flash, too brash!

[@liverpoolscottish6430]

Congratulations Ray! You've won the lottery of life! In terms of aesthetic appeal, no other car can match the E, not even the Ferrari Dino- which is a beautiful machine in it's own right. The E is, and always will be the zenith of car design.

[@michaelmeliambro5117]

@@liverpoolscottish6430 If it's as stunning a car as you say it is, why is it then "not in the same class as the E???" Nobody likes a hypocrite!!!

[@ericgeorge5483]

An AMAZING car that has to be amongst the most beautiful automobiles ever conceived.

[@JG-iz8ko]

Great car, great music, good to see George 👍

[@TopGearrules]

The Jag E type, the original Mini and the original Land Rover are all the best, and most revolutionary British cars ever made!!

[@lowdrag1946]

Came across this and hadn't seen it for years. I still have the car and remember the filming well - it took from noon to 5am!

[@lowdrag1946]

Came across this and hadn't seen it for years. I still have the car and remember the filming well - it took from noon to 5am! 306 CYN - still here in the garage at Le Mans!

[@TheNigel55]

What a fantastic looking car

[@alltheway62]

I was born too late, but at least I finally bought my dreamcat !

[@ijc1958]

The most stunning car in t961 60 years later nothing has changed

[@michaelmeliambro5117]

Just because it beat the Stingray by a mere two years doesn't mean a thing.

[@johntechwriter]

1:13 - Imagine. I owned an E-Type roadster that looked just like this beauty when single, living in the big city, and in my mid-20s. I was a cyclist and pretty fit. On a hot summer’s night I’d drive aroundI with the top down and can testify that this car’ s reputation as a crumpet-collector was based on reality, not fantasy. But no, I.did not “collect” lovers and discard them. This car got the attention of my boring self by potential dating prospects way out of my league. More often my heart was broken rather than theirs. But even though it didn’t last, the journey was fantastic!

[@ianalderton6683]

''A racing car in a mini skirt'', brilliant : ))

[@markblunck2692]

Bob Berry is seen at 3:32. He was the man who drove the first press demonstrator car from Coventry to Geneva, a fixed head coupe with registration plate - 9600HP. The next day, Norman Dewis in a roadster, 77RW, made the same trip and both cars were then used for press use. While the 150 mph claim was likely achieved in a car with a loose engine and race tires, two years ago the first production RHD coupe owned by Peter Neumark of Classic Motor cars, did reach 146.6 on an autobahn stretch. The car was restored to stock specifications many years earlier with no horsepower increase but did use speed appropriate tires for the high speed run. The driver felt that if given just a bit more room he could have reached the magic 150, but unexpected traffic was an issue throughout the day.

[@kernals12]

yes it is, the Ford Mustang still holds the record for the fastest selling car ever, the sold over 600,000 in 1966

[@DonSitges]

E-Type is still the world's most beautiful car

[@santanamayson2872]

Dunno if anyone gives a damn but if you're bored like me atm then you can stream all of the latest series on InstaFlixxer. Been watching with my gf lately xD

[@enochcannon1555]

@Santana Mayson Yea, I have been using InstaFlixxer for months myself :D

[@georgejaxxon481]

@Santana Mayson Yea, I've been using InstaFlixxer for since december myself :)

[@michaelmeliambro5117]

You mean the Stingray (the 1963 split window, specifically) is the most beautiful car in the world.

[@farishanafiah8461]

​@@michaelmeliambro5117Not even Enzo Ferrari said the same thing about it, and that pretty much says it all.

[@paulmarriner5906]

Did Quinton really go that fast he’s a brave man

[@artofwheels]

Great classic! Thumbs up!

[@wildmaxwelton]

@systemanic The E-Type in the 1960s was almost exactly the same price relative to the "normal" person on the street as a new XK is today. So you're absolutely right.

[@wildmaxwelton]

@Sebhelyesfarku Sort of. Here in the states, the E was about $5,500 in 1961. A 2010 XK was about $80,000. The average income was $5,700 ($9,300 for college grads) in 1961. 2010 was $25,400 ($43K college grads). So in 1961, an E was either one year's wages or seven months, depending. In 2010 an XK was three years or two years. So I was wrong, the new XK is almost twice as much compared to income, but not quite as cheap as your figures have it, eh?

[@roadshowbuspt]

BEAUTIFUL CAR ONE DAY I BUY ONE

[@kernals12]

@systemanic that's odd, I think of the Jaguar E type as having the same effect in Britain as the Ford Mustang had here in the States, the car that brought speed and style to the masses, and the Mustang set a sales record that hasn't been beaten by any other car

[@paulgabolinscy2502]

Thrilling to drive too

[@jigrodrigues]

There is only one thing which represents 60's UK better than the E-type: George Best :)

[@williamegler8771]

I wonder how often the yellow Roadster had to stop to cool off or have its oil topped up....

[@Earl85minimotoracer]

I sat in a e type today it was a convertible and red I also sat in one of the oldest car in the world

[@rovamota]

Show me one that hasn't had at least two restorations of dubious quality. It was built to a price and rusted almost as fast as it went.

[@jaggass]

you've got to admit that it has to be britains best ever made car. series one looked the best.

[@stewartw.9151]

At about 06:00 and 09:00 in are shots from a Pirelli-made movie called "The tortoise and the Hare" featuring an E-Type, a blonde and a plodding truck through the beautiful scenery of Italy! Pity this is in low res! Saw that movie in Newcastle a hundred years ago! kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4SklmOMhL2diqs

[@MegaCaveMan14]

yes it is :)

[@kernals12]

@systemanic Well, maybe they mean it was cheap compared to a ferrari, in that respect, the E-Type has more in common with the Corvette

[@MagnificentKot]

When it was launched in 1961, the appeal of E-Type transcended the automotive world. For sure the Mustang did no such thing. Such is the inherent rightness of the E-Type's proportions, stance and purity of line, that it is a permanent exhibit in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Now why isn't the Mustang there in the museum?

[@michaelmeliambro5117]

And why isn’t the Stingray, for that matter???

[@Gewehr_3]

Yes it is the difference between the mustang and the jaguar was, everyone could have a mustang as it was considered a cheap economy car

[@dougharper6144]

Just a super car

[@Embracing01]

One thing that really annoys me whenever some TV presenter mentions the E-Type, they repeat the same garbage about how affordable they were at only £2,000, yet fail to realise that 2 grand was certainly not cheap nor affordable, certainly not for the average Joe. The "they were affordable" is complete nonsense. Anyone know why they reused footage of Quentin driving the red E-Type, 848 CRY that was shown in a 1993 Top Gear special at the first NEC Classic and Sports Car show?. why did they need to use old footage for this 1997 Car's the Star episode?. The shots of Willson driving the E-Type along the country roads and the aerial shots are the same shots seen in the Top Gear episode.

[@britishcomposers]

6:22 and just watch that speedometer climb! How many ECU and cat converter stifled modern German cars of this engine size can climb as well as this up at these high speeds beyond a fully-peaked-up M-Sport style of super saloon today? Not many. And this is a 50-year old design on a 1948 engine block!

[@KE70Soul]

special car

[@malcstag]

But he owns a Daimler SP250?

[@StigMustang1967]

I know but im proving a point

[@adam1othman]

Don't get me wrong the e was a gorgeous car that was very capable of delivering super car speeds to a larger crowd of people. but it was not cheap in the context of the era, it was not faster than the ferraris of the period, and it was made cheaply. The type was in the mid range costing the same money as a porsche 911 or a big alfa. And in the period the mid range car to have was the obvious e, enzo ferrari said it was the best looking car he's ever seen. but lets be serious enzo was too competitive to sit back and let another car out shine his own. So when he came out with the 250 lusso he really created a design that was on par with or even better than the type and it was faster. Especially when ferrari introduced the 330 and 275 series cars, it meant ferrari was now settled into the decade. also the types were not very successful against the slower 250 swb ferrari because of the parts it was made from. the jaguar had a power advantage over ferraris on the race tracks, but the problem is that the parts they were made from were cheap in order to sell the car for such a low price. as a result its disk brakes were not the best of the era and they would fade and the driver couldn't exploit the extra power and the ferraris handled better keeping ferrari on top in gt racing then theres the obvious 250 gto problem. the type is such an easy car to wax lyrical about, but it wasn't without its problems. I think its spectacular because of its timing, jaguar really was the first to lead the automotive world into the 1960's. everybody else followed in jaguars stead and it was this brave action that would lead into the brave new world of the 60's and thats why its spectacular. its not that it had speed. its that it was a departure of cars of the 50's it showed that mankind has done everything it can with mechanical tech and the only way to progress was to go digital and it was a period where all cars were special because everyone knew in the period as well as today that cars of the likes of the e type were never going to be seen again. so it was more affordable than a typical ferrari and relativley just as fast, to celebrate the beginning and end of automotive nirvana.

[@pmeutr]

Adam Othman ,nh,,.

[@Gewehr_3]

I never said it was

[@tonybrown4754]

This was mentioned on the internet so I thought I'd update here. I still have 306 CYN 35 years on but after over 100,000 miles she had a rebuild and is now back in her original colours of gunmetal with red interior. 850152, a 1961 flat floor roadster.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they even want to slow down all the gas pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.

[@Gewehr_3]

Typical European reaction, getting your panties in a bunch. These cars aren't comparable is what I meet, anyone could have a mustang back in the day. The Jaguar was for the rich only.

[@MagnificentKot]

Now you know that's not true.

[@GTVAlfaMan]

The only car to have a greater reception was the Ford Mustang in 1964/1965.

[@MagnificentKot]

Typical American reaction... you lot are always twisting facts and/or not understanding simple basic concepts. The fact is that the Jaguar E-Type received the greatest reception of all. So what if the Mustang sold more. Who cares? It's not about that. It's about desirability. Something that you evidently don't understand. You know, on its release, one the greatest car designers, Enzo Ferrari called the E-Type, "The most beautiful car ever made." Now why don't I ever hear that about the Mustang?

[@12121149]

Comparing an E-type to a Mustang,you haters need to do your homework.E-type,was not cheap,but very well built,Mustang was cheap,first version,and was poorly built.Ford used a lot of left over parts from the Falcon.

[@StigMustang1967]

yah but the mustang isnt as beautiful or fast as the E-Type Jag